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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- FOREWORD TO THE SERIES -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- WORKS OFTEN CITED -- Volume One HISTORY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE -- � HISTORICAL SURVEY -- � SOCIETY AND ECONOMICS -- � EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, AND LITERATURE -- � PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION -- � JUDAISM IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD -- � THE ROMAN EMPIRE AS THE HEIR OF HELLENISM -- Glossary -- Index of Early Christia...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- § 7. THE SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- § 8. FROM JOHN THE BAPTIST TO THE EARLY CHURCH -- § 9. PAUL -- § 10. PALESTINE AND SYRIA -- § 11. EGYPT -- §12. ASIA MINOR, GREECE, AND ROME -- GLOSSARY -- EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS -- GENERAL INDEX -- AUTHORS DISCUSSED IN THE TEXT -- WORKS OFTEN CITED

While the first American edition of this book, published more than a decade ago, was a revised translation of the German book, Einführung in das Neue Testament, this second edition of the first volume of the Introduction to the New Testament is no longer dependent upon a previously published German work. The author hopes that for the student of the New Testament it is a useful introduction into the many complex aspects of the political, cultur...

This work has established itself as a classical text in the field of New Testament studies. Written in a readable, non-technical style, it has become an indispensable textbook and reference for teachers, students, clergy, and the educated layperson interested in a scholarly treatment of the New Testament and its background in the Judaic and Greco-Roman world.

This book belongs on the shelf of every minister who takes seriously the history and theology of the early church. Buy a copyand read it.

n this magisterial volume, which is destined to become the standard text for studying the tradition and history of the early Christian Gospel literature, the author treats more than a dozen Gospel writings from the first two centuries. These Gospels include more than the standard canonical Gospels, covering also such writings as the Gospel of Thomas, , the Apocryphon ofJames, the Gospel of Mary and others.

This volume brings together studies of Ephesos--a major city in the Greco-Roman period and a primary center for the spread of Christianity into the Western world--by an international array of scholars from the fields of classics, fine arts, history of religion, New Testament, ancient Christianity, and archaeology.